Well, Hello, everyone!
So I had my car on airports parking that let me to be home quite soon.
I was out working and having my numerous everyday life problems not writing anything for you for long time.
But there was something interesting during my last days that I guess will be interested for all my friends...at least you guys could take a look at the pictures :)
It turned so that had some business in Stavanger these 5-6 of Mai 2015. As you might know or not I have some friends there and I've used this opportunity to meet them.
My friend I refer to could be known to some of my followers form few previous posts - he is a St. Petersburg's fellow - Alex Bertov. So I of course would like to take an advantage of this business trip and to meet him.
But apparently of that I knew that there's one of the most spectaculous places in Norway nearby Stavanger. A must visit place for tourists and the ones living here. I guess many of you have seen a pictures of this place in some brochures showing Norwegian landscapes and attractions, maybe without even recognizing what is that indeed.
The place I promote now is called "Preikestolen" in Norwegian.
Here is a link to Wikipedia page about the place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preikestolen
I haven't got a clue about what it actually is but a colleague of mine explained me this while we've been sitting in Bergen's airport Flesland...
So the word as many others in Norwegian is a composed one: "Preike" means "to talk" and Stolen "the chair". One could think (as I did before) that it is a chair to talk...well, indeed Preikestolen is a place in church near the one where a priest is standing...so meaning could be the place to talk to God...I guess when you'll see a pictures, you find the reason why :)
I started my day 7 o'clock form my home and it took me half hour driving to the airport with some traffic, nothing is perfect, you know. When a flight to Stavanger is only 30 minutes, so we with my colleague have been to Stavanger office around 9-something
We were having full day of course in a business process but it is far out of topic. We agreed to go to the "talking cliff" right after the course...but there were wind and rain...we with Aleksandr desired almost to give up but luckily he had a visitor this time. She was a way more motivated to go there in any case than us and by that she have motivated us two as well...
We started a bit later than planned with ferry from Stavanger to Tau (a little place on the other side of the fjord). I must excuse myself since no pictures of the ferry were taken however it could be interesting for many followers to see it. If any interest will be indicated - I will make you a post about ferries :)
The ferry took about half an hour and then we had to drive for about 15 minutes to get to the parking near the start of the touristic path.
I have to admit that it is written on Wikipedia I referred above that the way takes approximately form 1 to 3 hours each direction however the length is only 3,8km. I given this info a doubt at once I've read it: how could 3,8km be taken in 1-3hours...normally you go 4-5 km/hour...if you run it would be (of course depends on you fit, I count on my - what speed I can hold for an hour without dying completely :) ) about 10 km per hour...all of us were of some ok fit, so at least 5-6 km/h should be possible to hold for a while. And a while of 3,8km should be done in about 40 minutes.
However, I guess nobody is interested in any kind of calculations, so I'll just show you some views for the path to the target place. Enjoy!
I must admit that there were many views on the way to parking that could be called "beautiful"...but the views on the way to Preikestolen were extraordinary...
And of course - here is the point of all these text and our affords:
As one might notice the place is really something you feel like touching a door to heaven...knocking on it :)
Summing it up we managed the way in 40 minutes up and 20 minutes down but almost running on the way back. However the full way took us about three hours and it was very late...but we were hungry and therefore we had a nice dinner and discussions at Aleksandr's apartment...I was even more late to the hotel...
Next day there was new day of coursing. I've managed it but was completely washed out.
One good thing - I've found nice place on plane (10A) near the emergency exit
I hope that you've enjoyed the reading and looking at the photos.
Please give any thougts and comments to this post. I will be glad to read your feed back.
I guess I will not disappear for long now and will have more to tell you about!
Bye-bye!
